LINNELL, John (2 son of James Linnell, carver and gilder, d. 1837). b. Plumtree st. St. Giles’s, London 16 June 1792; drew portraits at 10 years old; entered schools of the R.A. 1805; portrait painter to 1847, then landscape painter, engraved his portraits; exhibited 176 pictures at R.A. and 91 at B.I. 1807–79; member of Society of painters in oil and water-colours 1812–20, treasurer 1817, exhibited 52 works there 1813–20; his landscape ‘Removing timber’ sold for £3360 at the Price sale April 1892; there was a large collection of his works at winter exhibition of the R.A. 1882–3; author of The royal gallery of pictures, selections from collection at Buckingham palace 1840; The royal academy a national institution 1869; Selection of cabinet paintings at Buckingham palace 1877. d. Redstone Wood, Redhill, Surrey 20 Jany. 1882. bur. Reigate cemet. 25 Jany. A. T. Story’s Life of John Linnell 2 vols. (1892), two portraits; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc 535, portrait; Graphic, xxv 125 (1882), portrait; Black and White 25 Feb. 1893 p. 228, portrait.
LINSELL, Richard. b. Great Dunmow, Essex 24 May 1765; apprenticed to Thomas White of Felstead, carpenter 1780–7; general carrier between Dunmow and London 1791 to 1807; a builder at Dunmow 1807–9; carrier at Stebbing 1809; landlord of the King’s Head inn, Stebbing 1812–15; a farmer near Stebbing 1815–19; landlord of the Swan inn, Clare, Suffolk 1820–33 and of the Cricketers’ arms near Clare 1834–43. Life of Richard Linsell. By A Friend. (Rusticus) Tottenham (1855).
Note.—He first appeared as a cricketer at Prior’s hall, Lay, parish of Linsell 1 May 1790; raced the coach from London to Dunmow 37 miles in 5 hours, gaining by 15 minutes 23 Aug. 1796; at Woodford ran 1 mile in 4 min. 57 sec. 28 Aug. 1796; threw a stone 137 yards Oct. 1796; beat Mr. Parsley in a quoit match 27 April 1797; from 1788 for 30 years he stood open to play any man in England at 20 different games.
LINSKILL, Mary (eld. child of Thomas Linskill a worker in jet). b. Whitby, Yorkshire 13 Dec. 1840; apprenticed to a milliner; an amanuensis; a painter; many of her novels appeared originally in Good Words; author of Tales of the North Riding. By Stephen Yorke 2 vols. 1871; Cleveden 2 vols. 1875, new ed. 1892; Carl Forrester’s faith 1883; The magic flute 1884; Between the heather and the northern sea 3 vols. 1884, new ed. 1890; A lost son and the glover’s daughter 1885; The haven under the hill 3 vols. 1886, new ed. 1892; A garland of seven lilies 1886; Hagar, a north Yorkshire pastoral 1887; Robert Holt’s illusion, and other stories 1888. d. Stakesby Vale, Whitby 9 April 1891. Mary Linskill’s In exchange for a soul, new ed. (1892), memoir pp. xi–xix.
LINTON, Henry (eld. son of rev. Henry Linton 1804–87, V. of Diddington, Hunts.) b. 1839; ed. at Harrow and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1860; in the Harrow cricket eleven 1854–7; entered Madras civil service 1861; head assistant to collector and magistrate of Nellore to death. d. Madras 24 Aug. 1866.
LINTON, Thomas. Superintendent of police at Edinburgh 1851–78, public prosecutor 1851 to death. d. suddenly in his room next the police court, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1892.
LINTON, William. b. Liverpool 22 April 1791; a landscape painter in London; a founder of Society of British artists 1824, a member to 1842; exhibited 57 pictures at R.A., 78 at B.I. and 101 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–71; author of Ancient and modern colours, with their chemical and artistical properties 1852; The scenery of Greece and its islands 1856, 2 ed. 1869; Colossal vestiges of the older nations 1862. d. 7 Lodge place, St. John’s Wood road, London 18 Aug. 1876. Art Journal (1850) 252, portrait, (1858) 9–11, (1876) 329.
LINTON, Sir William (eld. son of Jabez Linton of Hardrigg lodge, Dumfriesshire). b. Kirkpatrick Fleming, co. Dumfries 1801; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; spent four summer vacations as surgeon on a whaler in the Arctic regions; L.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Glasgow 1834; assistant surgeon 66 foot 18 Jany. 1827 to 1841; surgeon in the army 2 July 1841; staff surgeon of first class 17 March 1848, deputy inspector general of hospitals of first division of army in the Crimea 1854, had charge of the great hospital at Scutari 1855, inspector general of hospitals 1 Oct. 1858, placed on h.p. 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of English army in India 1858–9; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Skairfield, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire 9 Oct. 1880.
LINWOOD, William (only son of Wm. Linwood of Birmingham). b. 1817; ed. at Birmingham gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1837–51; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; Hertford, Ireland and Craven scholar 1836, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1839; ordained deacon; assistant master at Shrewsbury; public examiner at Oxford 1850–1; published A lexicon to Æschylus 1843, 2 ed. 1847; Sophoclis Tragœdiæ superstites, with Latin notes 1846, 4 ed. 1877; A treatise on Greek tragic metres with the choric parts of Sophocles metrically arranged 1855. d. Birchfield, Handsworth, Staffs. 7 Sep. 1878. Academy 28 Sep. 1878 p. 315.
LIPTRAP, John. Entered Bengal army 1817; lieut. 21 Bengal N.I. 4 Nov. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 19 June 1831, major 17 Feb. 1850 to 7 May 1855; lieut.-col. of 8 N.I. 7 May 1855 to 1856, of 45 N.I. 1856 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. London 21 Sep. 1878.